•hostname — Hostname to ping.
•packet_size — Number of bytes in a packet. The default is 56 bytes. The actual packet size will be eight bytes larger than the size specified because the switch adds header information.
•packet_count — Number of packets to send, from 1 to 65535 packets. The default is 4 packets. If 0 is entered it pings until stopped.
•time_out — Timeout in milliseconds to wait for each reply, from 50 to 65535 milliseconds. The default is 2000 milliseconds.
Parameters range
•hostname — 1 - 158 characters (Max label size: 63)
•packet_size — IPv4: 56 - 1472
•packet_count — 0 - 65535
•time_out — 50 - 65535
Command Mode
EXEC
Default value
This command has no default setting.
Usage Guidelines
Press Esc to stop pinging. Following are sample results of the ping command:
Destination does not
Destination
Examples
Console> ping 10.1.1.1
Pinging 10.1.1.1 with 64 bytes of data:
64bytes from 10.1.1.1: icmp_seq=0. time=11 ms
64bytes from 10.1.1.1: icmp_seq=1. time=8 ms
64bytes from 10.1.1.1: icmp_seq=2. time=8 ms
64bytes from 10.1.1.1: icmp_seq=3. time=7 ms